Summary: Tim, Gordon, and Roy struggle with coughs and connection difficulties and yet manage to produce another episode filled with news and discussion

TODAY’S show covers many topics including the new Linux release, Android, Microsoft’s latest departures and failures, and of course Wikileaks. This is the first episode in about a week due to lack of time for the three of us to regroup and record. Our new IRC channel and new official Web site will be announced quite soon. [Update: the show notes are up]

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I’ve always had niggling problems with downloading the audio files from this domain, but retrying a second or third time would sort it.

The download for episode 24 seem to be an exception to this: Firefox can not complete the download, it fails between 19 and 30MB. Also, your server does not seem to support a download restart, i.e. Firefox keeps having to start from scratch. I suspect a bit of tinkering with enabling restarting, or dealing with partial downloads, might save you a lot of bandwidth

I’m just trying with wget, and it’s having exactly the same problem: the first download was interrupted at 33MB for some unknown reason, and then it restarts from scratch

I can download reliably from many other sites with much bigger files, so it ain’t me

Thanks. Someone brought it up right after the first few shows and we checked with the host. The main issue we have is the use of Varnish, which overrides some server settings. We’ll try sorting this out again using the information you gave.

wimwauters Reply:January 15th, 2011 at 10:51 am

Excellent, thanks, I hope they find the 600 second bug

wimwauters Reply:January 19th, 2011 at 7:47 am

Yep, the 600 second limit is still there.

I’ve now managed to download this ogg-cast over a slightly faster connection (8000kbps in stead of 5000-ish kps) in 9 minutes and 47 seconds: yep, that was a close one

Microsoft's charm offensives against Free/libre software are proving to be rather effective, despite them involving a gross distortion of facts and exploitation of corruptible elements in the corporate media

A British MEP criticises Battistelli and the management of the European Patent Office (EPO) while Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, UK Minister for Intellectual Property, gets closer to Battistelli in a tactless effort to improve relations